Contested Boundaries: Indigenous Peoples, Tourism and Protected Areas in Canada and New Zealand.

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant (2016-2018)

Co-Investigators: Dr Courtney Mason (Thompson Rivers University), William Snow (Nakoda Consultation, Alberta) .

This international collaboration is a comparative study of how Indigenous communities in Western Canada and New Zealand are reasserting their cultural rights in the co-management and management of national parks and protected areas with a focus on issues relating to policy/planning input, consultation, representation and empowerment.

see: http://courtneymason.sites.tru.ca/research-projects/